Fabricating Quality in Education

Fabricating Quality in Education
Author: Jenny Ozga,Peter Dahler-Larsen,Christina Segerholm,Hannu Simola
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2011-12-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781136824470

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This book argues that data and their use constitute a form of governance of education. It highlights the ways in which education is steered and managed so that a European education policy space is ‘fabricated’ through data which travel across national systems, and which enter and restructure provision to make it measurable, comparable and governable.

Independent Women

Independent Women
Author: Martha Vicinus
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 437
Release: 1988
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780226855684

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Martha Vicinus's subject is the middle-class English woman, the first of her sex who could afford to live on her own earnings 'outside heterosexual domesticity or church governance.' She wanted and needed to work. Meticulous, resonant, original, triumphant, Independent Women tells of the efforts and endurance of this Victorian woman; of her courage and the constraints that she rejected, accepted, and created. . . . The independent women are the 'foremothers' of any women today who seeks significant work, emotionally satisfying friendships, and a morally charged freedom."—from the Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson "Feminist insight combines with vast research to produce a dramatic narrative. Independent Women chronicles the energetic lives and imaginative communal structures invented by women who 'pioneered new occupations, new living conditions, and new public roles.'"—Lee R. Edwards, Ms. "Vicinus is to be congratulated for her brave and unflinching portraits of twisted spinsters as well as stolid saints. That she stretches her net up into the '20s and covers the women's suffrage momement is a brilliant stroke, for one may see clearly how it was possible for women to mount such an enormous and successful political campaign."—Jane Marcus, Chicago Tribune Book World "Vicinus' beautifully written book abounds in rich historical detail and in subtle psychological insights in the character of its protagonists. The author understands the complexities of the interplay between economic and social conditions, cultural values, and the aims and aspirations of individual personalities who act in history. . . . A superb achievement."—Gerda Lerner, Reviews in American History "Martha Vicinus has with intelligence and energy paved and landscaped the road on which scholars and students of activist women all travel for many years."—Blanche Wiesen Cook, Women's Review of Books "Independent Women can be read by anyone with an interest in women's history. But for all contemporary women, unconsciously enjoying privileges and freedoms once bought so dearly, this book should be required reading."—Catharine E. Boyd, History

Nordic Superintendents Agents in a Broken Chain

Nordic Superintendents  Agents in a Broken Chain
Author: Lejf Moos,Elisabet Nihlfors,Jan Merok Paulsen
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2015-12-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9783319251066

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This book analyses the superintendent position and relations and shows how the well-known policy umbrella, the New Public Management (NPM), is being adapted to national contexts. School superintendents are civil servants at the heart of the governance of municipal education. Educational governance in the Nordic countries - Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden - is currently undergoing comprehensive restructuring and reconceptualisation at the hands of national governments influenced by transnational agencies. Our analyses of the superintendent position and relations show that the well-known policy umbrella, the New Public Management (NPM), is moving towards focusing on soft governance and social technologies as the preferred means of influences. Thus we rename it New Public Governance (NPG).

Small Nation Global Cinema

Small Nation  Global Cinema
Author: Mette Hjort
Publsiher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2005
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 081664649X

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Investigates the relationship between globalization and the New Danish Cinema.

Arctic Clothing

Arctic Clothing
Author: Jonathan C. H. King,Birgit Pauksztat,Robert Storrie
Publsiher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780773530089

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"Arising from a conference held at the British Museum in 2001, Arctic Clothing of North America - Alaska, Canada, Greenland is a wide-ranging and authoritative account of clothing use in the north. For the first time, contributors include Native and non-Native artists and seamstresses, anthropologists, historians, curators and conservators with expertise in Alaska, Canada and Greenland."--BOOK JACKET.

The Danish Directors

The Danish Directors
Author: Mette Hjort,Ib Bondebjerg
Publsiher: Intellect (UK)
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2001
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: UOM:39015053480904

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Profiling the canonized figures alongside recently-established filmmakers, this collection features interviews with Lars von Trier, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Thomas Vinterberg and Henning Carlsen among many others. It poses questions that engage with ongoing and controversial issues within film studies, which will stimulate debate in academic and filmgoing circles alike. Each interview is preceded by a photograph of the director, biographical information, and a filmography. Frame enlargements are used throughout to help clarify particular points of discussion and the book as a whole is contextualised by an informative general introduction. A valuable addition to the growing library of books on Scandinavian film, national cinema and minority cinema.

100 Years of Nordisk Film

100 Years of Nordisk Film
Author: Lisbeth Richter Larsen,Dan Nissen
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2006
Genre: Film
ISBN: 8787195577

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The Danish Directors 2

The Danish Directors 2
Author: Mette Hjort,Eva Jørholt,Eva Novrup Redvall
Publsiher: Intellect Books
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2010-08-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781841503929

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Over the last two decades or so, the New Danish Cinema has established itself as an important source of cinematic renewal and innovation, and as a model for how small, minor or peripheral cinemas can survive in an industry dominated by Global Hollywood. Following in the footsteps of critically-acclaimed The Danish Directors (also published by Intellect), The Danish Directors 2 provides a practitioner’s perspective on the social, cultural, and economic milieus in which Danish film-makers have been able to develop their practice, and to thrive. With insider information about the making, marketing and distribution of award-winning films, and interviews with seminal directors such as Anders Thomas Jensen, Annette K. Olesen, and Lone Scherfig, The Danish Directors 2 allows readers entry into what might seem to be a forbidding body of work. The editors are knowledgeable and sensitive interrogators, and their appreciation of the specific qualities of each director’s work elicits thoughtful replies. This volume will appeal to students, scholars, and cinephiles alike.